Alonso Mudarra

Biography

Alonso Mudarra (c. 1510 – April 1, 1580) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance, and also played the vihuela, a guitar-shaped string instrument. He was an innovative composer of instrumental music as well as songs, and was the composer of the earliest surviving music for the guitar. The above text from the Wikipedia article "Alonso Mudarra" text is available under CC BY-SA 3.0.